16/07/2024
"Power Plays" at the Carnegie Museum of Art on Saturday on July 27, at 2pm!
Curated by Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere.
Introduction by Zoé Samudzi, the Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor of Genoc1de Studies and Genoc1de Prevention at Clark University.
carnegieart.org/event/power-plays
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Notes from curators Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere:
Tool for exploitation or arena of resistance? The paradoxical nature of sport—as a site of biopolitical control, collective struggle, and individualized fantasy—makes it a rich and captivating subject. This program challenges commonplace understandings of the sports film genre by focusing on artist-made media and counter-narratives rather than commercial documentary and fiction sports movies, which often service hagiographic or nationalistic agendas. "Power Plays" seeks to address some of the unseen political and economic flows of the globalized sports-media complex.